Nietzsche's Legacy : "Ecce Homo" and "The Antichrist," Two Books on Nature and Politics

A reappraisal of�Ecce Homo�and�The�Antichrist�within Nietzsche's oeuvre. Nietzsche's Legacy�takes on the most challenging and�misunderstood works in Nietzsche's oeuvre to illuminate his view of what a�philosopher is�and what constitutes a philosophic life. Interpreting�Ecce�Homo�and�The Antichrist�as twin books meant to�replace the abandoned�Will to Power�project, Heinrich Meier�recovers them from the stigma of Nietzsche's late mental collapse, showing that these works are, above�all, a lucid self-assessment. The carefully written pair contains both the highest affirmation-the Yes of the "revaluation of all values"-and the most resolute negation-the No to Christianity. How the Yes and the No go together, how the relation between nature and politics is to be determined, how Nietzsche's intention is governing the political-philosophical double-face: this is the subject of�Nietzsche's Legacy, which opens up a new understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole.